On Wednesday 02 August 2006 21:29, Marc Perkel took the opportunity to say: > The zombies wouldn't be able to connect because the zombies wouldn't > have the IMAP password.
In that case, neither the SMTP password, which we have to assume is required.
But in most cases I think the spamware has access to the password if it wants
to. Especially with admin privileges.
> If you use IMAP for your outgoing email from the client you no longer
> need port 25 except for server to server transfers. The only outgoing
> path is the IMAP connection which requires authentication. Zombies
> wouldn't have the password and wouldn't have access to any way to send
> email.
Not with SMTP on port 587 either. Not that it's easy, but getting everyone in
the world to use a different port sure is easier than getting everyone in the
world to use a different protocol, one that would need code to be written for
first.
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